Dali, a region famous for the Cangshan Mountain, Erhai Lake and its Bai ethnic culture, received some 4.23 million tourist visits during the Lunar New Year holiday, up 219 percent year-on-year, with tourism revenue(收入) growing 162 percent to 3.16 billion yuan ($465 million), according to data from the local culture and tourism bureau. 

Why did so many people come there? It was partly because of Dali’s romantic life vividly showed in the popular television soap opera Meet Yourself, in which the character, an urban white-collar worker quits her job and moves to a bed-and-breakfast in a small town in Dali following the death of her best friend, where during the course of many ups and downs, she regains the courage to live.

A week after the show was first screened in early January, searches for Dali doubled on online travel agency Fliggy, and those for Shaxi ancient town, where many of the scenes were shot, surged 10-fold, while associated keywords became top searches on Sina Weibo on multiple occasions. 

Brian Linden, a 60-year-old from the United States who runs the Linden Center Hotel in Xizhou town in Dali, said that he and his colleagues were busy receiving tourists from around the world during the festival. “Between 500 to 800 tourists have come to visit every day and our courtyard is open to everyone. We had to control the flow of people so that our guests would not be affected,” he said, adding that some of the show’s scenes were shot in his hotel, and many tourists wanted to have a look.

Linden added that all the rooms had been fully booked before the festival, and the hotel was expecting revenues higher than the festivals of the last two years combined. It was offering guests a variety of experiences, including tie-dyeing(扎染) and dragon dancing, and about a quarter of the bookings were non-Chinese.

“Many Chinese and foreigners have returned to people-to-people exchanges, which are a good opportunity to learn the true story of China,” said Linden.

1.What do the data in Paragraph 1 show?

A Tourism in Yunnan is always developing well.

B Not many people want to experience the slow life in Dali.

C Dali was offering guests a variety of experiences.

D Lots of tourists came to Dali during this year’s Spring Festival.

解析：选D。D推理判断题。根据第一段描述可知，在春节期间，大理接待了约423万游客，同比增长219%，旅游收入增长162%，达到31.6亿元人民币(4.65亿美元)。即今年春节期间很多人前去大理旅游。故选D。

2.Which has the closest meaning to the underlined word “surged”?

A Grabbed.

B Increased.

C Deleted.

D Choked.

解析：选B。B词义猜测题。根据第二段中的“searches for Dali doubled”以及“became top searches”可知，该剧播出一周后，在线旅行社Fliggy对大理的搜索量翻了一番，相关关键词也多次成为新浪微博的热门搜索。由此可知，人们对沙溪古镇的搜索量也“增加”了10倍。故选B。

3.Which of the following statements is true about Linden’s hotel?

A His hotel is not doing well this year.

B Customers in his hotel can have a rich experience.

C Visitors came to watch the soap in his hotel.

D His hotel only receives non-Chinese customers.

解析：选B。B细节理解题。根据倒数第二段最后一句“It was offering guests a variety of experiences, including tie-dyeing and dragon dancing”可知，Linden Center Hotel为客人们提供各种各样的当地特色体验。故选B。

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A Popular TV soap opera attracts lots of tourists to Dali.

B Dali will add elements of Bai culture to future tourism products.

C Many people are positive about future business after the holiday peak.

D The tourism boom posed challenges for Dali.

解析：选A。A主旨大意题。根据全文内容可知，本文主要描述了电视剧《去有风的地方》带火云南旅游的相关情况。故选A。